Cover Story: Jawbox

Interviews: Exene Cervenka, The Bomb, Kristen Ward, Riptides, Spring Tigers, Sean Walsh and The Reserve.

Album Reviews: Angus Khan, Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs, Anomie Belle, Apples in Stereo, David Bazan, Leonard Cohen, Drive By Truckers, Fun, Mayer Hawthorne, I:scintilla, Janus, Map, Monotonix, Morphine, Jim O'Rourke, Rifles, Sassy!!!, Shaky Hands, Sherwood, Skinlab, Spring Tigers, Therefore I Am, Turbo Fruits, Vivian Girls, Rufus Wainwright.

Book Reviews: I Drink for a Reason, by David Cross; The Simpsons: An Unauthorized, Uncensored History, by John Ortved

Movie Reviews: Status Quo: Live at Montreaux; Rick Wakeman: The Six Lives of Henry VIII, Live at Hampton Court Palace; You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk Rock1977-1984; ZZ Top: Double Down Live 1980-2008; Monty Python: Almost the Truth: The Lawyer's Cut

Cover Story: Pearl Jam's Backspacer

Interviews: Pete Droge, Lisa Germano, American Steel, BYO Records, Cobra Skulls, Get Up Kids, and Teenage Bottlerockets.

Album Reviews: 69 Eyes, Alumnium Babe, Olivia Broadfield, Casualties, City and Skyway, Datarock, Droge and Summers Blend, Eva and the Heartmakers, Every Time I Die, Girlyman, Woodie Guthrie, Joe Henry, Robert Earl Keen, Kittie, Lovehatehero, Madness, Barrett Martin, Michael McDermott, Mower, Erin Muir, National Rifle, Sufjan Stevens & OSSO, Suit of Lights, Talbot Tagora, and Tiny Vipers.

Book Reviews: "Kill the Music" by Michael J. Plumides, Jr.; "Lowside of the Road: Life of Tom Waits" by Barney Hoskyns

Movie Reviews: "The Beatles: Rare and Unseen"; "The Willie Nelson Special with Special Guest Ray Charles"; "Steve Vai: Where the Wild Things Are"; "Evilution"; "Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Second Season": "Fringe: The Complete First Season"

Cover Story: Visqueen

Interviews: Chevelle, Jaguar Club, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, The Scarred, Screaming Females, Stone Roses, Bronze Radio Return

Album Reviews: Anekdoten, Bats, Beastie Boys, Porter Block, Chevelle, Choo Choo La Rouge, Color Turning, Fruit Bats, Girl in a Coma, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jaguar Club, Mariachi El Bronx, Willie Nelson, Ted Nugent, Oh My God, Os Mutantes, Pissed Jeans, Chuck Ragan, Seldon Plan, Set Your Goals, Slaraffenland, Those Darlins, Vails, Wooden Birds, Various Artists (Tribute to Love and Rockets)

Book Reviews: I, Doll: Life and Death with the New York Dolls, by Arthur "Killer" Kane; Seven Mile Beach, by Tom Gilling

Movie Reviews: Punk in London/Punk in England, directed by Wolfgang Buld; Madmen: Season Two; Pulling: Season One

Cover Story: Our Lady Peace

Interviews: Jenny Owen Youngs, Broadway Calls, Kurt Danielson (TAD), Traindodge, Jayhawks, Shark Speed

CD Reviews: A Camp, Anthem In, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Black Whales, The Blackout, Bottle Rockets, Cheap Trick, British Sea Power, Discovery, Emery, Eyes Set to Kill, God Help the Girl, Ed Hale, Hermit Thrushes, The Higher, Howling Bells, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Ozric Tentacles, Project Pale, Shark Speed, Silent Years, Smile Smile, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Frank Turner, Gina Villalobos, and Wilco.

Book Reviews: Grunge is Dead by Greg Prato, Hit Hard: A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at The Top by Joey Kramer, White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-by-Day by Richie Unterberger

DVD Reviews: Diana Krall: Live in Rio, Ted Nugent: Motor City Mayhem, Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season, Family Guy: Volume 7, Weeds: Season 4 

Cover Story: Crocodiles

Interviews: Bouncing Souls, Marcy Playground, Yesterday's Ring, Josh Berwanger, Merit

Story: Horse's Ha

Album Reviews: 50 Foot Wave, Aimee Allen, Big D & the Kids, The Church, Clock Hands, Cool Devices, Crocodiles, Datsuns, Dubious Ranger, Gallows, Green Pajamas, Levon Helm, Hill Country Revue, Iron & Wine, Daniel Lanois, Placebo, Roman Candle, So Many Dynamos, Richard Swift, System and Station, Vetiver, War of Ages, Sara Wasserman, Yesterday's Ring, Various Artists: Woodstock 1 and 2.

Book Reviews: Poisoned Heart: I Married DeeDee Ramone (The Ramones Years) by Vera Ramone King

DVD Reviews: Penn & Teller: BS! - The Complete Sixth Season, Reaper: Season Two, True Blood: Season One, Z Rock: Season One

Cover Story:  The Dangerous Summer

Interviews:  Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, Living With Lions, Settle, Operation Aloha

Story:  Remembering Jeff Buckley

Album Reviews:  Atmosphere, Burn Halo, the Casting Out, Coyote Poets of the Universe, Cursive, the Decemberists, Depeche Mode, Dipsomaniacs, Endless Hallway, Adam Franklin, Great White, IAMX, I See Stars, Steve Martin, Mute Math, No Bragging Rights, Obits, the Rakes, Ruby Throat, Vienna Tang, Viva Voce, the Von Ehrics, War Tapes, Winfred E. Eye, Zelazowa

Book Reviews:  Wish You Were Here: An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes - From Punk to Indie to Everything in Between by Leslie Simon

Movie Reviews: Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Fanboys, The Dana Carvey Show

Cover Story: Anti-Flag

Interviews: Color of Violence, Fastball, Haymarket Riot, Tommy Keene, Left Alone, MC Lars, Misc.

Album Reviews:  500 Miles to Memphis, Antenna's Up, Appleseed Cast, Black Lips, JJ Cale, Roxy Epoxy and the Rebound, Alejandro Escovedo, The Fray, Hitch, Immaculate Machine, Steve Kilbey, The Loved Ones, Misc., New Found Glory, Oh No Not Stereo, Radiohead, Static-X, Damion Suomi, Telling on Trixie, Thursday, Tiny Animals, Vanna, Vaseline, Victorian Halls, Vox Jaguars

Book Reviews: Rock Bottom by Michael Shilling, Black Dogs by Buhrmester

Movie Reviews: Cirque du Soleil: All Together Now, NOFX: Backstage Passport, Iggy Pop: Lust for Life, In Treatment: Season One

Cover Story:  Ume

Interviews: Taste of Chaos, The Thermals, Skold vs. KMFDM, Franz Nicolay, Roger Joseph Manning, Jr., Julien-K, Ace Enders

Features:  Pearl Jam, Utah Phillips

CD Reviews: The 1900s, Becoming the Archetype, Bill Bruford, CIAM, Ford & Fitzroy, Horde of Two, I Set My Friends on Fire, Kaline, Land of Talk, Leathermouth, Love is All, The Loved Ones, Mr. Russia, Willie Nelson, Danny Rocco, The Rollo Treadway, Sweet Water, The Tamboureens, The Thermals, U2, Weird Owl, Michael Zapruder, Various Artists (Cure tribute)

Book Reviews: The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellin Cartel by Roberto Escobar and David Fisher, Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me edited by Ben Karlin

Movie Reviews: Breaking Bad: The Complete Season, The Rocker, Frozen River, Summer Heights High

Cover Story: Rise Against

Interviews: Cheap Trick, Dead to Me, Larkin Grimm, Dustin Kensrue, Reel Big Fish

CD Reviews: The Age of Rockets, Tim Barry, Belle and Sebastian, Blitzen Trapper, Call to Preserve, Cowboy Mouth, Davenport Cabinet, Dead to Me, Deathcab for Cutie, Everything Now!, Fear Before, Joel McIver, Bella Morte, Charles Peterson, Godhead, The Handcuffs, I Am Ghost, La Dispute, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Charlotte Martin, Mercury Rev, Oh Captain My Captain, Pavement, Pontiak, Jason Reeves, Self Made Soul, Sense Fail, Sound and Shape, Marnie Stern, Warship, Gina Young, Various Artists (MPress)

Book Reviews: Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myth of Republican Politics by Glenn Greenwald, When I Grow Up by Juliana Hatfield, Home: Social Essays by Leroi Jones